[246] ‘Rudens,’ 406–11.
[247] M. Benoist has gone over separately the characters of the women in Plautus in his thesis, ‘De Personis Muliebribus apud Plautum’ (Massiliæ, 1862).
[248] Édélestand du Méril, ‘Histoire de la Comédie Ancienne,’ vol. ii. p. 211; Gaston Boissier, ‘Quomodo Græcos Poetas Plautus transtulerit’ (Parisiis, 1857).
[249] Verses 368–70.
[250] ‘Cur.,’ 146–54.
[251] ‘Truc.,’ 354.
[252] ‘Pœn.,’ 353.
[253] ‘Journal of Hellenic Studies,’ vol. viii. (1887), p. 256.
[254] See Bachofen’s ‘Mutterrecht.’
[255] Pearson, p. 53.